| 1.08.2007 |
| Gossip |
Tammy sat at the table and listened as the four other women sitting with her gossiped. When the five of them got together, all they ever did was gossip. They talked about everyone that they could think of to talk about. Tammy wondered what the others would think of each other if they knew that they all gossiped about each other when they visited one on one. Paul was right, "The tongue was an unruly creature." How many sermons had they heard about the tongue being a source of mess? Tammy wanted to ask them, "Are you all sure we are Christians?"
Angela, Helen, Mary, and Karen were currently gossiping about a gospel singer in the city. It had been alleged that the singer was cheating on his wife with a female pastor in a neighboring city. Tammy was waiting for her friends to ask her for her side of the story. Tammy knew the whole story. Tammy usually knew the latest gossip. She knew someone, who knew someone, who knew a person who knew everybody who was anybody's business.
Tammy could not believe how she had gotten caught up in gossiping. She never grew up gossiping. Her mother was always the last one to know anything of interest. Her mother had always told her, "Honey, it's enough just to know your own business. You do not need to be worrying about anyone else's business." It was easy to get caught up with the gossip though. Once she met Caroline Franklin, gossiping became a part of Tammy's life.
Caroline Franklin knew someone who knew everybody in the gospel world. Tammy had never met this friend of Caroline. Tammy was not even sure that Caroline's friend existed. Caroline got Tammy hooked by talking about Carver Boone, one of Tammy's favorite singers. Apparently, Carver was fooling around with his manager's 19 year-old daughter. Tammy stopped her thoughts. She could not believe that she was gossiping with herself. Lord, she needed help.
Angela touched Tammy's arm, "Girl, did you hear me? What do you know about Oscar Eastman?" Tammy did not answer Angela. Tammy was trying to resist the urge to gossip. It was hard though. All four of the ladies who were sitting at the table with Tammy just stared at her, waiting for a response. A rush of adrenaline raced through Tammy's body. The roof of her mouth salivated and her heartbeat raced. Every fiber of her flesh wanted to spill her guts. Her spirit told her to keep her mouth shut. Tammy was not sure what to do. Karen said, "Well, are you gonna tell us? I know you know. You need to quit tripping and gone and tell us." Tammy smiled, "You all know I got my sources. Yea, I know the story." Tammy paused and then said, "Apparently, Pastor Callvar's husband walked in on Oscar and Pastor Callvar in the middle of it. He almost passed out. Pastor Callvar's husband cussed them both out, called the police, and blocked the door so that Oscar could not leave."
"Girl, you know you lying."
"Who was on top?"
"Did anybody go to jail?"
"Is Pastor Callvar's husband ok?"
Tammy shook her head. She told herself that she was not going to gossip, but she had done it again. Tammy felt tears welling up in her eyes. She was tired of feeling like this. Excited while she was spreading the gossip, but shameful after she had opened her mouth, that was no way to live. She often prayed that she wouldn't gossip when she got together with her friends, but it never worked out for her.
Mary said, "Is that all of the story?" Tammy shook her head, "No. But it's enough of the story. We do not need to be gossiping anyway. None of that is our busy anyway."
Helen made a face, "Oh, Lord, here we go again. You act a fool every time you say something about somebody. Why don't you just quit saying stuff about folk, instead of bothering us?"
Tammy lamented, "If I did not tell you all what you all wanted to know, I would be ostracized and you all know it."
Angela rolled her eyes, "If you do not want to gossip, then why do you always know the latest gossip? Seems like you want to know the latest info, but you do not want to share it. That ain't right."
Tammy sighed, "It ain't like that. I am just tired of getting together with you all and all we ever do is talk about people. That is all we do. That is not right. We even talk about each other when the groups are separated. Angela, didn't you tell me that Mary was looking at porno sites? Karen, didn’t you tell me that Helen had run over her neighbor's rose bush? We all gossip and no one, I mean no one is off limits. God only knows what you all have said about me."
Angela made her mean face, "You are such a witch. I cannot believe you said some mess like that. You just messy." Karen added, "That was cold-hearted. You did not even have to go there. That was just messy."
Tammy lowered her head. She wanted to cry. She could not believe that she had been that callous and cold. She did not usually act that way. Tammy just wanted to get out of there.
The women ate their food in silence.
Helen interrupted the silence, "Tammy is telling the truth. We do gossip about each other like we ain't even friends. I mean Mary may only be looking, but one of us has actually participated in some porno. I ain't saying who, but that is what I heard." All the ladies looked at each other, trying to figure out which one of them was the guilty culprit.
Tammy shook her head. What had she done? Had it come down to this? She wanted to quit gossiping so much that she would jeopardize her friendship with the four ladies sitting at the table with her.
Tammy stared at Helen. Helen gave Tammy a wicked smile because Helen knew that Tammy knew who the culprit was. Tammy wondered, "Which one of the two women would be the first to reveal that Helen was the one who had participated?"Labels: Gossip |
| posted by Me @ 2:12 PM |
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